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Your Gleason Score
So, on our last post we discussed the biopsy process. We discussed that your Urologist likes the TRUS approach. You agreed to it and had…
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The Biopsy
Now we are really getting to the meat and potatoes of this whole mess. A so-called abnormal PSA test could easily lead to an immediate…
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What is a Gleason Score and Why Do I Care
Let’s begin with the ten-dollar question posed above. If you do not have Prostate cancer, then you do not care because you will not have…
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What Happens When you get an “Abnormal” PSA Test Result
This is a disturbing and interesting topic. Remember there is no such thing as a normal PSA score or test result! With that said, one…
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From Where Does the Standard for “Normal” Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Derive
Prostate Specific Antigen (shortened to PSA going forward in this discussion) is not cancer specific. It is a protein excreted from the normal, cancerous or…
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Don’t Ignore Your Prostate
In 2024 about 299,010 men will be diagnosed with Prostate cancer and 35,250 men will die from Prostate cancer in the US (American Cancer Society,…
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After the Original PSA Test Approvals, Where Do We Go Next?
We have explored the first 2 PSA Test FDA Approvals, as difficult as it may be to understand how they got an approval. But they…
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The Second FDA approved PSA Test
Hybritech was determined to get its PSA test approved by the FDA for expanded uses; rather than continuing to have physicians to use the test…
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Catching Up for Instagram and Facebook
I have now tied my Facebook and Instagram accounts to this blog. My hope was to be able to create simple posts and put them…
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Mea Culpa
In an earlier post, I made a mistake. Based on an exchange of emails back in 2015 or 2016 with Dr. Richard Ablin, I said…